What We Carry
Title | What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Shanbhag Lang |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-04-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0525512403 |
“A gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken.”—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk If our family stories shape us, what happens when we learn those stories were never true? Who do we become when we shed our illusions about the past? Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya’s mother had always been a source of support—until Maya became a mother herself. Then the parent who had once been so capable and attentive became suddenly and inexplicably unavailable. Struggling to understand this abrupt change while raising her own young child, Maya searches for answers and soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer’s. Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter—stories about her life in India, why she immigrated, and her experience of motherhood—Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to reexamine their relationship. It becomes clear that Maya never really knew her mother, despite their close bond. Absorbing, moving, and raw, What We Carry is a memoir about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us. It is a beautiful examination of the weight we shoulder as women and an exploration of how to finally set our burdens down. Praise for What We Carry "Part self-discovery, part family history. . . [Lang's] analysis of the shifting roles of mothers and daughters, particularly through the lens of immigration, help[s] to challenge her family’s mythology. . . . Readers interested in examining their own family stories . . . will connect deeply with Lang’s beautiful memoir."—Library Journal (Starred Review) “A stirring memoir exploring the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters . . . astutely written and intense . . . [What We Carry] will strike a chord with readers.”—Publishers Weekly “Lang is an immediately affable and honest narrator who offers an intriguing blend of revelatory personal history and touching insight.”—BookPage
What We Carry
Title | What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Shanbhag Lang |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 052551239X |
"Profoundly moving"-Will Schwalbe, author of The End of Your Life Book Club "Agorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the lovethat grows between what is said and what is left unspoken."-Mira Jacob, author ofGood Talk In caring for her aging mother and her own young daughter, writer Maya Shanbhag Lang-"a new voice of the highest caliber" (Rebecca Makkai)-confronts the legacy of family myths and how the stories shared between parents and children reverberate through generations- a deeply moving memoir about immigrants and their native-born children, the complicated love between mothers and daughters, and the discovery of strength. How much can you judge another woman's choices? What if that woman is your mother? Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency, all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. She had always been a source of support-until Maya became a mother herself. Then, the parent who had once been so capable and attentive turned unavailable and distant. Struggling to understand this abrupt change while raising her own young child, Maya searches for answers and soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer's WhenMayasteps in to care for her, shecomes to realize that despite their closeness, she never really knew her mother.Were her cherished stories-about life in India, about what it means to be an immigrant, about motherhood itself-even true? Affecting, raw, and poetic,What We Carryis the story of a daughter and her mother, of lies and truths, of receiving and giving care-and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us.
What We Carry
Title | What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Shanbhag Lang |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-08-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 935302997X |
Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children. Maya's mother had always been a source of support-until Maya became a mother herself. Struggling to understand this abrupt change, Maya soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer's.Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter, Maya's mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to re-examine their relationship. Absorbing, moving, and raw, What We Carry is a memoir about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us.
Call Us What We Carry
Title | Call Us What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Gorman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2024-01-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0593465083 |
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback and with bonus content! This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Now in paperback and featuring an interview with the author and a discussion guide, Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.
What We Carry
Title | What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Dorianne Laux |
Publisher | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2013-12-20 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1938160371 |
Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of healing, poems of affirmation and poems of celebration.
What I Carry
Title | What I Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Longo |
Publisher | Ember |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2021-01-26 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0553537741 |
"A deeply touching story about survival, hope, and love." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author A powerful and heartwarming look at a teen girl about to age out of the foster care system. Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then she meets Francine. And Kira. And Sean. And everything changes.
What We Carry
Title | What We Carry PDF eBook |
Author | Kalyn Fogarty |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1643858475 |
WINNER OF THE 2021 AMERICAN BOOK FEST BEST BOOK AWARD Fans of Caroline Leavitt will relish this rich, complex novel born of the author's own loss and grief, about how one can overcome tragedy through bravery and self-discovery. Cassidy Morgan's life has always followed a carefully laid track: top education, fulfilling career, and marriage to the love of her life, Owen. The next logical step was starting a family. But when a late-term miscarriage threatens to derail everything she's worked so hard for, she finds herself questioning her identity, particularly what it means to be a mother. Unable to move past her guilt and shame, she realizes there's more to fix than a broken heart. Grief illuminates the weaknesses in her marriage and forces her to deal with her tumultuous relationship with her own mother. Cassidy hopes her work as a veterinarian specializing in equine reproduction will distract her from the pain but instead finds that one of the cases she's working on shines a spotlight on the memory of her unborn son. For once in her life, Cassidy is left untethered and wondering why she wanted to become a mother in the first place. Then the unexpected happens when Cassidy becomes pregnant again. But the joy over her baby is tempered by her fear of another loss as well as her increasingly troubled marriage. Now, she must decide whether to let her pain hold her back or trust that there's still something to live for. What We Carry is a thought-provoking response to the author's own miscarriage and lack of fiction surrounding the topic, that she and other women in her situation crave.